I had just noticed the count on the balloon that pops up with Spiderguard that shows how many virus records there are and figured there was quite a jump and then noticed Bunks post as I was on here at the time. I hadn't visited the Dr's analysis site yet to see how many and had roughly figured it was a couple thousand jump in my head and was going to hop over and check it out when I got done here but Bunk saved me the trip.

That's hard to answer or defend against, in part because there may be sittings differences. Avira have varying hueriatics and Dr Web does not. However, Dr Web has always been up there in FPs due to it's (too) strong hueristics.

That's not the issue at all. Even with its heuristics at the highest setting it seems Avira is hard-pressed to match DrWeb.

The nature of Avira's FPs come mostly in form of miscellaneous, less well-known software components, some grayware, foreign non-English programs etc that are usually more annoying than damaging. Case in point: I was helping a friend clean up her infected computer a few days ago using CureIt!, and when we were chitchatting and I wasn't paying attention, DrWeb wiped out her HP printer drivers.

In any case, whacking foobar and CCleaner is way past the line, The FP rates of other vendors should give you an idea of what an acceptable baseline should be, and with this latest escapade DrWeb has just shot way past the wrong side of that baseline.

In any case, whacking foobar and CCleaner is way past the line, The FP rates of other vendors should give you an idea of what an acceptable baseline should be, and with this latest escapade DrWeb has just shot way past the wrong side of that baseline.

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I'm just curious, what part of my post did you think wasn't agreeing with what you're saying? Seems to me that you are a little too adimit about this.

n8chavez said:

However, Dr Web has always been up there in FPs due to it's (too) strong hueristics.

Tony: looks like Sergey has gone offline, im sure he will be in touch though regarding the problem you were having, as for the sidebar extension, it could still be riskware/unwanted program, some do label some as that.